Anyone else think @Tony’s honeycomb cutout look like it might be bigger than 20x12?
Let the discussion begin…
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This could actually be within the measurements. You can take a smaller item and get close with your camera and it will look bigger.
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There’s so many things I could say…biting my lip, biting my lip, biting my lip…
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I’m betting 90% of your unsaid comments have to do with Anthony Weiner…
I’m thinking the desk top is 1" … so there is some scale to go by.
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Where is this from?
EDIT: Never mind, it just showed up.
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Curious as well. I asked on the post. 
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@Tony has now posted more pics on his new thread. I got this pic from Twitter and Instagram… (Yes I’m a mild and harmless Glowforge stalker)… Continue discussion over there…
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Sorry, which topic is this?
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Awe man…
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I swear, after all the waiting to see the pass-through in action, the first thing I’m doing when I get my pro is lasering the full length of an 8+ foot plank.
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As long as that plank is no more than 1/4" thick (the maximum thickness for the pass-through slot)
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… oh, right… dang.
It would just be ridiculous to rip a plank down to a 1/4" thickness for no purpose other than to scratch a lasering itch… right?
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I might not go as far as “ridiculous”. As soon as I read that, I pictured a laser engraved fireplace mantel engraved onto 1/4" stock laminated onto something thicker.
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oh absolutely, there are plenty of uses for it. I just don’t actually need to do it.
But I’m gonna do it, anyway.
ETA: Great, now I want to make a mantelpiece. It’d be neat to do something like this, but with 1/4" wooden planks.
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mmm… only ridiculous if you don’t have a table saw
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I don’t (I should really fix that) but I can totally rip planks on the ol’ radial arm saw. I’ve never actually tried to do something that thin, though.
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You rip planks with a radial arm saw? You are a daredevil sir. Just had to rip a walnut board yesterday for some drawer fronts (on the table saw) and ended up with a nice piece of leftover veneer… yes I kept it for the Glowforge.
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I like to live dangerously… or negligently, I suppose. I don’t do much woodworking (which is probably obvious by my lack of a basic woodworking tool like a table saw) so I very rarely need to rip anything. The only time I’ve done it recently is when we were adding some under-deck waterproofing and needed to turn 30 feet of 2x4s into 60 feet of 2x2s.
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eeps! To each their own, but that sounds scary to me…
you can get a used table saw for real cheap on craigslist, but they are bulky and require space to use and store.
If you have a hand-held circular saw you might be able to make a jig for long thin rips. I have a Kreg jig for my cordless that might be inspiration to start with. Mine is “not recommended” for widths under 1".
You could also build a table-saw using a hand-held circular saw:
Simple:
Fancier:
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I’ve had building one on my project list for a while, but it’s a very long list and I am not moving through it very quickly.
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